Category: Writing
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Communiqué from Juringen Helkarkennen, W-MR-ff2-2cf93d Senior Supervisor, Core Border Region Western Spiral Material Management Division transcribed by David Artman General Introduction Welcome to the Human Stellar League! Your star system has been approved for Standard Trade Status in the Human Stellar League (HSL) with all the rights and privileges that Status entails. Though your planet’s…
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But the ocean drowns in its embrace, Each granted depth the more crushing. You dive deep, under wave, into current, Knowing you must breathe, Holding out ’til desperate, choking. Staying down because you love the flow. But I saw you breathe, saw you dance over the waves. You smiled my way as you flew free,…
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In that moment of seizure, Hunter’s sturdy, powerful heart contracted and froze, drowned in chaos’ thick malaise. Undaunted and chastised, Hunter Scales’s consciousness sunk penitently into that unwholesome mire, the past poised in suspension through the dissolution of his senses. ‘Curiously like the tales of life passing before one’s eyes….’ He—if enough remained of this…
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The Defining Servant of the Life Force and Its Evolution The search for the ideal man is pervasive in literature, beginning with the epic hero in the Western tradition and descending through history under various names, with even more varied ideals. The Modern period in British literature was not divorced from this tradition any more…
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In “The Relic,” John Donne conducts a grand compliment to the woman he loves by way of holy and hopeful imagery. The poem is based upon the central image of a holy relic used to reference a simple lock of his loved-one’s hair, a lock which, “At the last busy day” of Final Judgment, will…
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The elms of the lawn exist, surely, just for this moment; roots, trunk, branches, grown over decades only to dapple Ra’s gaze into golden fire in your hair, only to orchestrate the light and soft shadow which dances on your cheek, hips, neck. You stride strong back into my mind, and your recognizing smile slays…
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A Fictionalized Treatise On Modern Marriage This is an essay comparing the treatment of marriage in fiction by Virginia Wolfe, Bernard Shaw, and D.H.Lawrence from within a fictional framing story in which the principle characters of Mrs.Dalloway, Man and Superman, and Women In Love meet at a dinner party hosted by the author’s alter ego.…
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There are few men in the galaxy for whom life is an exhilarating surprise, a merciful relief. One of these few was Technician Thrace Soleman (ID# Astro.A159FC6B) as his ship, the Willie Mays, reentered normal space. Though living all his life in space—tesseracting hither and yon, withstanding gravities from nil to seven times Sol.Earth norm—he…
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Let them eat cake: The common, coupling hordes; We dine on honeyed bread: Sweet and sustaining. Let them babble of summer days, and the latest vogue passion; We commune through rain, sun, and fall, Speaking of life, all. Let them beg of their gods, Cement their fragile union; We are our lords and servants, Self-blessed…